5 surprising facts about natural healing

While some of us rather go to a GP and only look for the empiric results, others tend only to look for natural and holistic medicine. But as a matter of fact with Functional Medicine you receive both. We are all natural beings and the closer we live to our holistic whole self. When understanding what we do to our body effects our body, we already act in a natural healing way. Let me give you some facts.

Fact 1 - Natural Body Healing Powers

The body has its natural own power to heal itself. You are born with all resources you need. Along your life you might loose one or another or simply forget about it, but you can retrieve them. So allow your body to first try to heal by itself.

Imagine you walk down the isle of a supermarket and you look at a product - one thing you see is the shelf life of the product. Let me tell you, your cells in your body have that too. A red blood cell lives approximately 120 days, a white blood cell about 90 days, your bone cells 7 years, and your nerve cells about 25 years. So if there is a shelf life, there is always time to improve on your health and get a new batch of cells that is healthy and thriving.

Fact 2 - Let Food be thy Medicine

What you eat is who you become. Or what your food has eaten is what you are. If eating daily processed foods, toxins and junk, the result in obesity and disease will come eventually. Therefore go back to nature:

• eat 3-5 meals a day that are clean,

• eat 5 colours 3 times a day

• eat only real food (without ingredients list)

• eat your last meal at 5pm

• drink between the meals enough water or herbal teas (without sugar),

• reduce your sugar intake drastically, or exchange it to xylitol or erythrol, some maple sirup or honey is ok, but give your tastebuds back their power to taste original foods.

Fact 3 - Relationships

Be mindful and conscious about your lifestyle. Emotional health is just as important then the rest. Detoxification also means to get rid of relations that are toxic to you. Surround yourself by loving and supporting people. Friends and family that nurture your and you them.

Fact 4 - Sleep

Your body has its own mechanism to regenerate - by sleeping. As we are in our life

exposed to way more influences and noises than our granparents, our body will need more time to rest and reset. Sleep in the right times latest 10pm for about 8-9 hours. Just look at my daughter's photo (6 years ago). Babies sleep up to 12 hours a night plus 2-4 hours during the day, they need to process all they have learned, saw, smelled and experienced. We learn and process as adults as well, but think we don't need the sleep? I Invite you to do a Pijama day and sleep in.

Fact 5 - Breathing

Of course we all do that constantly as we live. But 90% of the population is engaged with their stressors of daily routine and is therefore not engaging in conscious deep breathing. This means, that a few functions of the lung are reduced and therefore in the long run it can affect us in many ways.

When breathing deeply it has an impact and does following:

• deep breathing enhances moisturising your skin

• engaging all muscles and diaphragm while breathing deep helps with peristaltic of your gut (counteracting constipation)

• deep breathing especially when longer exhalation than inhalation, reduces stress and calms Vagus nerve - and therefore helps digestion.

• deep breathing helps to recover from anemia, as it helps oxygen attaching to red blood cells and sends it to circulation.

• deep breathing, and Wim Hof Breathing helps agains cold hand and feet

• it reduces anxiety and helps you to be in "Being" rather than in "Doing"

• Breathing brings you to reality of your body - the only truth!

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